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  • BE.010J Introduction to Bioengineering, Spring 2006 
    Belcher, Angela M.; Matsudaira, Paul T.; Lauffenburger, Douglas A. (2006-06)
    Designed as a freshmen seminar course, faculty from various School of Engineering departments describe the research and educational opportunities specific to and offered by their departments. Background lectures by the ...
  • BE.442 Molecular Structure of Biological Materials, Fall 2005 
    Zhang, Shuguang, Dr. (2005-12)
    Basic molecular structural principles of biological materials. Molecular structures of various materials of biological origin, including collagen, silk, bone, protein adhesives, GFP, self-assembling peptides. Molecular ...
  • BE.453J Biomedical Information Technology, Spring 2005 
    Dewey, C. Forbes (Clarence Forbes) (2005-06)
    The objective of this subject is to teach the design of contemporary information systems for biological and medical data. These data are growing at a prodigious rate, and new information systems are required. This subject ...
  • BE.102 Macroepidemiology, Spring 2005 
    Thilly, William G. (2005-06)
    This course presents a unique and challenging perspective on the causes of human disease and mortality. The course focuses on analyses of major causes of mortality in the US since 1900: cancer cardiovascular and cerebrovascular ...
  • BE.010J / 2.790J / 6.025J / 7.38J / 10.010J Introduction to Bioengineering, Spring 2005 
    Matsudaira, Paul T.; Belcher, Angela M.; Grodzinsky, Alan J. (2005-06)
    Designed as a freshmen seminar course, faculty from various School of Engineering departments describe the research and educational opportunities specific to and offered by their departments. Background lectures by the ...
  • BE.104J Chemicals in the Environment: Toxicology and Public Health, Spring 2005 
    Sherley, James L.; Tannenbaum, Steven R., 1937-; Green, Laura C. (2005-06)
    This course addresses the challenges of defining a relationship between exposure to environmental chemicals and human disease. Course topics include epidemiological approaches to understanding disease causation; biostatistical ...
  • BE.450 Molecular and Cellular Pathophysiology, Spring 2005 
    Schauer, David (2005-06)
    This courses focuses on the fundamentals of tissue and organ response to injury from a molecular and cellular perspective. There is a special emphasis on disease states that bridge infection, inflammation, immunity, and ...
  • BE.440 Analysis of Biological Networks, Fall 2004 
    Essigmann, John; Sasisekharan, Ram (2004-12)
    This class analyzes complex biological processes from the molecular, cellular, extracellular, and organ levels of hierarchy. Emphasis is placed on the basic biochemical and biophysical principles that govern these processes. ...
  • BE.420J Biomolecular Kinetics and Cellular Dynamics, Fall 2004 
    Wittrup, K. Dane; Tidor, Bruce (2004-12)
    This subject deals primarily with kinetic and equilibrium mathematical models of biomolecular interactions, as well as the application of these quantitative analyses to biological problems across a wide range of levels of ...
  • BE.430J Fields, Forces, and Flows in Biological Systems, Fall 2004 
    Grodzinsky, Alan J.; Lauffenburger, Douglas A. (2004-12)
    This course covers the following topics: conduction, diffusion, convection in electrolytes; fields in heterogeneous media; electrical double layers; Maxwell stress tensor and electrical forces in physiological systems; and ...
  • BE.011J Statistical Thermodynamics of Biomolecular Systems, Spring 2004 
    Hamad-Schifferli, Kimberly; Griffith, Linda G. (2004-06)
    This course provides an introduction to the physical chemistry of biological systems. Topics include: connection of macroscopic thermodynamic properties to microscopic molecular properties using statistical mechanics, ...
  • BE.441 Biomaterials-Tissue Interactions, Fall 2003 
    Spector, Myron; Yannas, Ioannis V. (2003-12)
    Principles of materials science and cell biology underlying the design of medical implants, artificial organs, and matrices for tissue engineering. Methods for biomaterials surface characterization and analysis of protein ...
  • BE.462J Molecular Principles of Biomaterials, Spring 2003 
    Irvine, Darrell J. (2003-06)
    Analysis and design at a molecular scale of materials used in contact with biological systems, including biotechnology and biomedical engineering. Topics include molecular interactions between bio- and synthetic molecules ...
  • BE.410J Molecular, Cellular and Tissue Biomechanics, Spring 2003 
    Kamm, Roger D.; Grodzinsky, Alan J.; Doyle, Patrick S.; Jonas, Maxine (2003-06)
    This course develops and applies scaling laws and the methods of continuum mechanics to biomechanical phenomena over a range of length scales. Topics include: structure of tissues and the molecular basis for macroscopic ...
  • 6.021J / 2.791J / 2.794J / 6.521J / BE.370J / BE.470J / HST.541J Quantitative Physiology: Cells and Tissues, Fall 2002 
    Freeman, Dennis M.; Weiss, Thomas Fischer; Poe, Mya (2002-12)
    Principles of mass transport and electrical signal generation for biological membranes, cells, and tissues. Mass transport through membranes: diffusion, osmosis, chemically mediated, and active transport. Electric properties ...
  • BE.442 Molecular Structure of Biological Materials, Fall 2002 
    Zhang, Shuguang, Dr. (2002-12)
    Basic molecular structural principles of biological materials. Molecular structures of various materials of biological origin, including collagen, silk, bone, protein adhesives, GFP, self-assembling peptides. Molecular ...
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